Graves International Art

Title: "Untitled (SFE-001)"
*Signed LR
Year: 1982
Medium: Original Etching and Aquatint
Limited edition: 59/100
Framed size: 32" x 26"
Sheet size: 31" x 24.75"
Image size: 23.5" x 18"
Reference: Lembark I33
Price: SOLD

Post WW II artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) remains one of the country's premier contemporary masters. Rooted in 1950s and 60s Abstract Expressionism which was concerned with giant color fields and painterly dripping gestures.

Francis sold his first painting to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. He lived and worked in Paris, Mexico, Hong Kong, and New York, but it is the Southern California climate that pervades his work. In vibrant oils and translucent watercolors, Francis culls from the sun, sea, and sky an unmistakable and unsinkable buoyancy as abstract forms float sensuously and weightlessly. Standing in front of a Francis, one is pulled into a watery world of vivid color and pulsating forms. The dripping is energetic, the spectral colors, quietly spiritual. As private collectors and museums—such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York—have attested, there is a singular joy in owning a Sam Francis.

Title: "Untitled (Fondation Maeght)"
Year: 1983
Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster
Limited edition: 5,000
Sheet size: 35.25" x 21.25"
Reference: Lembark P6, L262
Price: SOLD

Title: "Untitled (Metaphysique Du Vide) (SF-317)"
Year: 1986
Medium: Original Lithograph,
Exhibition Poster
Limited edition: Unknown
Sheet size: 33.25" x 22"
Reference: Lembark L273
Price: SOLD

Title: "Untitled (SF-348)"
Portfolio: Fresh Air School
*Unsigned edition
Year: 1972
Medium: Original Lithograph
Limited edition: 6,000
Sheet size: 15" x 22"
Reference: Lembark L155
Price: $1,000

GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer:
Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters.